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System Properties Comparison BaseX vs. GigaSpaces vs. RocksDB vs. TiDB vs. TypeDB

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Name

Description

Light-weight Native XML DBMS with support for XQuery 3.0 and interactive GUI.

High performance in-memory data grid platform, powering three products: Smart Cache, Smart ODS (Operational Data Store), Smart Augmented Transactions

Embeddable persistent key-value store optimized for fast storage (flash and RAM)

TiDB is an open source distributed SQL database that supports Hybrid Transactional/Analytical Processing (HTAP) workloads. It is MySQL compatible and features horizontal scalability, strong consistency, and high availability.

TypeDB is a strongly-typed database with a rich and logical type system and TypeQL as its query language

Primary database model

Native XML DBMS

Document store
Object oriented DBMS

Values are user defined objects

Key-value store

Relational DBMS

Graph DBMS
Relational DBMS

Often described as a 'hyper-relational' database, since it implements the 'Entity-Relationship Paradigm' to manage complex data structures and ontologies.

Secondary database models

Graph DBMS
Search engine

Document store

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Trend Chart

Score	1.73
Rank	#142	Overall
	#4	Native XML DBMS

Score	0.97
Rank	#192	Overall
	#32	Document stores
	#6	Object oriented DBMS

Score	3.65
Rank	#85	Overall
	#11	Key-value stores

Score	4.66
Rank	#70	Overall
	#38	Relational DBMS

Score	0.65
Rank	#234	Overall
	#20	Graph DBMS
	#107	Relational DBMS

Website

Technical documentation

docs.basex.org

docs.gigaspaces.com/latest/landing.html

github.com/facebook/rocksdb/wiki

docs.pingcap.com/tidb/stable

typedb.com/docs

Developer

BaseX GmbH

Gigaspaces Technologies

Facebook, Inc.

PingCAP, Inc.

Vaticle

Initial release

2007

2000

2013

2016

Current release

10.7, August 2023

15.5, September 2020

9.2.1, May 2024

8.1.0, May 2024

2.26.3, January 2024

License

Commercial or Open Source

Open Source

BSD license

Open Source

Apache Version 2; Commercial licenses available

Open Source

BSD

Open Source

Apache 2.0

Open Source

GPL Version 3, commercial licenses available

Cloud-based only

Only available as a cloud service

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Implementation language

Java

Java, C++, .Net

C++

Go, Rust

Java

Server operating systems

Linux
OS X
Windows

Linux
macOS
Solaris
Windows

Linux

Linux
OS X
Windows

Data scheme

schema-free

yes

Typing

predefined data types such as float or date

XQuery supports types

yes

XML support

Some form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.

XML can be used for describing objects metadata

Secondary indexes

yes

SQL

Support of SQL

SQL-99 for query and DML statements

yes

APIs and other access methods

Java API
RESTful HTTP API
RESTXQ
WebDAV
XML:DB
XQJ

GigaSpaces LRMI
Hibernate
JCache
JDBC
JPA
ODBC
RESTful HTTP API
Spring Data

C++ API
Java API

GORM
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocol
SQLAlchemy

gRPC protocol
TypeDB Console (shell)
TypeDB Studio (Visualisation software- previously TypeDB Workbase)

Supported programming languages

Actionscript
C
C#
Haskell
Java
JavaScript

Node.js
Lisp
Perl
PHP
Python
Qt
Rebol
Ruby
Scala
Visual Basic

.Net
C++
Java
Python
Scala

C
C++
Go
Java
Perl
Python
Ruby

Ada
C
C#
C++
D
Delphi
Eiffel
Erlang
Haskell
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Objective-C
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Scheme
Tcl

All JVM based languages
Groovy
Java
JavaScript (Node.js)
Python
Scala

Server-side scripts

Stored procedures

yes

Triggers

yes

via events

yes, event driven architecture

Partitioning methods

Methods for storing different data on different nodes

none

Sharding

horizontal partitioning

horizontal partitioning (by key range)

Sharding

by using Cassandra

Replication methods

Methods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodes

none

Multi-source replication

synchronous or asynchronous
Source-replica replication

synchronous or asynchronous

yes

Using Raft consensus algorithm to ensure data replication with strong consistency among multiple replicas.

Multi-source replication

by using Cassandra

MapReduce

Offers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methods

yes

Map-Reduce pattern can be built with XAP task executors

yes

with TiSpark Connector

yes

by using Apache Kafka and Apache Zookeeper

Consistency concepts

Methods to ensure consistency in a distributed system

Immediate Consistency

Consistency level configurable: ALL, QUORUM, ANY

Immediate Consistency

Foreign keys

Referential integrity

yes

full support since version 6.6

substituted by the relationship feature

Transaction concepts

Support to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of data

multiple readers, single writer

ACID

yes

ACID

Concurrency

Support for concurrent manipulation of data

yes

Durability

Support for making data persistent

yes

In-memory capabilities

Is there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.

yes

User concepts

Access control

Users with fine-grained authorization concept on 4 levels

Role-based access control

Fine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

yes

at REST API level; other APIs in progress

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Competitive advantages

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Typical application scenarios

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Key customers

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Market metrics

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